CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES, PRESSNUMMER 20

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A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE-SHAPED PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES, PRESSNUMMER 20
Painted in tones of underglaze blue with a peacock perched among prunus issuing from rockwork within a border of radiating panels of flowering shrubs, birds and Orientals within a shaped brown line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers enclosing a central flowering prunus tree issuing from rockwork (minute chip and blemish to rim at 2 and 6.30 o'clock, very slight wear to rim)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Lempertz, 22nd May 1986, lot 573.

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Lot Essay

For another example of this remarkable pattern in the Wark Collection, see Mary Campbell Gristina, 'The Wark Collection Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (Jacksonville, 1984), no. 96. Also see the example in the Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, Munich, and the example illustrated by Bernhard von Barsewisch, 'Unterglasurblaue Malerei' Keramos, No. 121 (1988), p. 72, figs 102 and 102a. Two similar plates were sold in our Geneva Rooms on 11th May 1987, lot 147 and 14th May 1990, lot 67; and another was sold in these Rooms on 30th September 1991, lot 213.

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